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1a
Menacing (8)
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5a
Secular (4)
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9a
Dromedary (5)
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10a
Ramshackle (2,5)
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11a
It keeps hair oil off the back of a chair (12)
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13a
Nabokov's nymphet (6)
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14a
Swiss house with sloping roof and wide eaves (6)
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17a
Went from bad to worse (12)
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20a
(Of time) passed (7)
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21a
Audibly (5)
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22a
Architect of Buckingham Palace, d. 1835 (4)
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23a
Car on end (anag) — artillery (8)
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1d
Dissenting clique (4)
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2d
In name only (7)
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3d
Concern for number one (4-8)
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4d
Hebrew prophet who rebuked Ahab and Jezebel (6)
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6d
First sign of the zodiac (5)
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7d
Male singer operated on before puberty to retain his soprano voice (8)
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8d
Relax after a crisis (7,5)
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12d
Beat repeatedly with a heavy object (8)
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15d
Now idle (anag) — short rest (3-4)
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16d
Give thought to (6)
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18d
Golf course hazards (5)
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19d
Not in active use (4)
